California Senate Bill 98
Session 20252026
Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification.
Became Law
Became Law on Sep 20, 2025
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill Number
98
State
California
Session
20252026
Gonzalez
Coauthor
Motion Text
Unfinished Business SB98 Pérez et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence
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Summary
(1) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development, as specified, of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to, among other things, identify appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school's procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety.
This bill would additionally require, until January 1, 2031, when a comprehensive school safety plan is next reviewed and updated, or by no later than March 1, 2026, those plans to include procedures specifically designed to notify parents and guardians of pupils, teachers, administrators, and school personnel when the school confirms the presence of immigration enforcement, as defined, on the schoolsite.
Existing law prohibits a chartering authority from denying a petition for the establishment of a charter school unless it makes written factual findings supporting at least one of specified bases for denial. One of those bases for denying a petition is if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes the same safety topics required in the comprehensive school safety plan of a school district or county office of education.
This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2031, a chartering authority to deny a charter school petition that does not include in its proposed development of a school safety plan the same provisions on procedures and policies relating to notifying parents and guardians of pupils, teachers, administrators, and charter school personnel when the charter school confirms the presence of immigration enforcement, as defined, on the schoolsite as are required by the bill in a school district or county office of education comprehensive school safety plan. The bill also would make conforming changes.
To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2) Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education as 4 segments of postsecondary education in the state.
Existing law requires the Trustees of the California State University, the governing boards of community college districts, and independent institutions of higher education that are qualifying institutions for purposes of the Cal Grant Program, and requests the Regents of the University of California, to the fullest extent consistent with state and federal law, to implement various precautionary measures when federal immigration enforcement activities are undertaken on campuses of those segments, as specified, including, among others, that those postsecondary entities advise all students, faculty, and staff to notify the office of the chancellor or president, or their designee, as soon as possible, if they are advised that an immigration officer is expected to enter, will enter, or has entered the campus to execute a federal immigration order.
This bill would require, until January 1, 2031, those postsecondary educational entities, and each campus of those postsecondary educational entities, to notify, as specified, all students, faculty, staff, and other campus community members who work on campus when the presence of immigration enforcement, as defined, is confirmed on campus. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
01/23/25 - Introduced
January 23, 2025
03/11/25 - Amended Senate
March 11, 2025
03/24/25 - Amended Senate
March 24, 2025
04/02/25 - Amended Senate
April 2, 2025
06/23/25 - Amended Assembly
June 23, 2025
08/21/25 - Amended Assembly
August 21, 2025
08/28/25 - Amended Assembly
August 28, 2025
09/04/25 - Enrolled
September 4, 2025
09/20/25 - Chaptered
September 20, 2025
03/18/25- Senate Education
March 18, 2025
04/04/25- Senate Judiciary
April 4, 2025
04/25/25- Senate Appropriations
April 25, 2025
05/25/25- Sen. Floor Analyses
May 25, 2025
06/30/25- Assembly Education
June 30, 2025
07/07/25- Assembly Higher Education
July 7, 2025
08/19/25- Assembly Appropriations
August 19, 2025
08/27/25- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS
August 27, 2025
08/29/25- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS
August 29, 2025
09/02/25- Sen. Floor Analyses
September 2, 2025
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09/20/2025
California State Legislature
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 124, Statutes of 2025.
09/20/2025
California State Legislature
Approved by the Governor.
09/09/2025
California State Legislature
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
09/02/2025
Senate
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
09/02/2025
Senate
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
09/02/2025
Assembly
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 10. Page 2811.) Ordered to the Senate.
08/28/2025
Assembly
Ordered to third reading.
08/28/2025
Assembly
Read third time and amended.
08/25/2025
Assembly
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
08/21/2025
Assembly
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
08/20/2025
Assembly
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 20).
07/09/2025
Assembly
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
07/03/2025
Assembly
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
07/03/2025
Assembly
Coauthors revised.
06/23/2025
Assembly
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
06/09/2025
Assembly
Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED.
06/03/2025
Assembly
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
06/02/2025
Senate
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1378.) Ordered to the Assembly.
05/23/2025
Senate
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
05/23/2025
Senate
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1191.) (May 23).
05/16/2025
Senate
Set for hearing May 23.
04/28/2025
Senate
April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
04/17/2025
Senate
Set for hearing April 28.
04/10/2025
Senate
April 21 hearing postponed by committee.
04/10/2025
Senate
Set for hearing April 21.
04/09/2025
Senate
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 705.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/02/2025
Senate
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
03/26/2025
Senate
Set for hearing April 8.
03/24/2025
Senate
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
03/20/2025
Senate
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 420.) (March 19).
03/11/2025
Senate
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
03/03/2025
Senate
Set for hearing March 19.
02/05/2025
Senate
Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
01/24/2025
Senate
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
01/23/2025
Senate
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Record Created
Jan 24, 2025 6:02:30 AM
Record Updated
Oct 1, 2025 8:42:03 AM